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["Garth N. Wells" <g.n.wells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

OK, so effectively there will be a temporary build system branch. Could
this be placed on fenics.org so that we can follow it?

Also, what time frame are we looking at?

Garth

Anders Logg wrote:
> I don't think there will be a problem. The new build of DOLFIN will be
> developed separately and we will all get a chance to try it out before
> making the move.
> 
> /Anders
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 12:47:13PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
>> I'm all for a new build system. I like radical changes :).
>>
>> I would prefer to make a temporary branch "dolfin-build" since we don't
>> know for sure how long it will take. I don't want a broken build system
>> to stop developments in the DOLFIN kernel.
>>
>> Garth
>>
>>
>> Anders Logg wrote:
>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:29:59AM +0100, jjan@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:10:31AM +0100, Johan Hoffman wrote:
>>>>>>> Sounds good to me.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The stable branch will be available under dolfin-stable i guess
>>>>>>> (Johan?).
>>>>>> What do you mean?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The new build system will be used for all branches, stable or not.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> /Anders
>>>>> Yes of course, but if the switch means that the build system will be
>>>>> broken for 2 weeks, then the stable branch should provide an alternative
>>>>> in the mean time. Right? That must be the idea of a dolfin-stable?
>>>>>
>>>>> /Johan
>>>>>
>>>> I'm also very positive to the move to a new build system, Åsmund and Matt
>>>> seem to be very capable of taking care of the strategy. But Johan H. has a
>>>> point, I think we should release before the move. Then the release can be
>>>> used as the dolfin-stable branch and applications developed against that.
>>>> When the build system starts working again, we merge the branches and
>>>> release again.
>>> Sounds good.
>>>
>>> The switch to the new build system is not immediate. It will take some
>>> time to put things together and convert the current build system for DOLFIN.
>>>
>>>> Is there anything left to do before the release?
>>> Testing. Please try out all the demos, benchmarks, unit test etc.
>>> Then we can make a release of DOLFIN + FFC (+FIAT?).
>>>
>>> /Anders
>>>
>>>
>>>>   Johan
>>>
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